she wore a halo and kept looking out at the parking lot in front of vons eyes fixed […]
Editors’ Selections
Santillanes’s poem toggles between the real and the surreal, between seeing and being seen, between being in the world […]
An Introduction to Ismael Santillanes by Victoria Chang
Chemidlin’s poem is compact with its small sections, but each section amplifies its emotions–whether being humor, pathos, confusion, […]
An Introduction to Grant Chemidlin by Victoria Chang
Just once, I wish you’d put yourself under my stovepipe. I passed through airport security only to find […]
Letter to My Lover as Abraham Lincoln by Denton Loving
I got to know Denton Loving through his short stories, which are born of the Appalachian rural landscape […]
An Introduction to Denton Loving by Linda Michel-Cassidy
A sleep as sure as wall studs.Breath checked with a compact mirror sleep. Concrete sleep. An all-night,dug-in clamshell […]
Abecedarian for New Parents by Keith Leonard
Of the cool, I am a zoologist. Of the cool,I have learned what obliterates.They grow older. They suddenlydance […]
Cool by Keith Leonard
Blow breath like pocket money—some real wet wads wasted on our tongues—filthy rich and thick with it—suck and […]
Nocturne by Eric Tran
can...alleviate the severe gastrointestinal symptoms of opiate withdrawal – American Addiction Centers What body weighs when it wants.Swell, […]
Bentyl by Eric Tran
In Keith Leonard’s poetry, time veers off the road and suddenly what matters changes. We find ourselves post-cool […]
An Introduction to Keith Leonard by Brad Aaron Modlin
In these poems from Eric Tran’s forthcoming book Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke, desire is firebolt and danger, belonging among […]